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The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodology of incorporating business logics into RFID edge systems, and thereby facilitate the business process automation in the RFID\u2010applied environment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>Following the object\u2010oriented modelling perspective, concepts of classes, instances are deployed to characterise the runtime context of RFID business scenarios; event patterns are used to aggregate RFID tag read events into business meaningful events; and business rules are established to automate business transactions according to the elicited events.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The paper has emphasised the synergy between business process automation and automatic data acquisition, and has identified the inter\u2010relations between RFID tag read events, application\u2010level events, business rules, and business operations. The reported research has demonstrated a feasible scheme of incorporating business process control and automation into RFID\u2010enabled applications.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>The paper analyses the characteristics of RFID data and event handling in relation to business rule modelling and process automation. The features of event\u2010relied awareness, context containment and overlapping, etc. are all captured and described by the proposed object\u2010oriented business model. The given data\u2010driven RFID middleware architecture can serve as one reference architecture for system design and development. 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